CHANCE IDEAS
FORTUNES OFTEN RESULT FROM SMALL ACCIDENTS MANY INSTANCES RECALLED Everyone dreams of the happy accident which may lead on to fortune, such as the trifling affair of a broken razor, which gave King Camp Gillette the idea of the safety blade and made him a millionaire. His recent death recalls similar fortunes which have come from chance ideas, and the rise of penniless people who have had the courage and faith to follow up their discovery. The idea may come in the bathroom, in the garden, in the office; or the housewife, irritated hy some clumsy device in the kitchen may stumble upon a secret earrying a sixfigure bank balance. Shelling a peanut which tore his finger left Tom Hudson, the Columhus Georgia millionaire, so exasperated that he immediately evolved a mechanical sheller. He made power machine which roasted the nuts. And from that serateh there grew a fortune for within four years, he hecame a millionaire. A chance thought, although it did not lead immediately t? wealth, was the beginning of a world-wide business when a Soho barber produced a transparent soap. His name is almost legendary to-day. He was Andrew Pears. Men who have made money by glazing pottery owe their fortune to a seiwant girl who fell asleep while watching a pot of hoiling brine. When she awoke it was seen that the pot was glazed where the brine had run over. Her master grew rich. So many of the things we use every day have made accidenfal fortunes, writes F.W. in the "Daily Mail" A man named Palmer hit upon the happy idea of the metal cap for beer bottles; and when he found a capalist to baclc him.he made thousands of pounds on the first year's saies. Thousands came to H. L.. Lipman when it occurred to him that a rubher eraser should be indispensable to the pencil. The crinkle in the hairpin, the pointing of the woodscrew, waterproof cloth, and blotting paper, all came from apparently insignificant ideas, or from accidents due to carelessness. -
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Rotorua Morning Post, Volume 2, Issue 391, 28 November 1932, Page 7
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342CHANCE IDEAS Rotorua Morning Post, Volume 2, Issue 391, 28 November 1932, Page 7
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